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At 08:41 PM 9/20/05, Elizabeth Carll, PhD wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">It is essential that if we are
attempting to hold government and businesses<br>
accountable for providing what they promise, it needs to be specific
and<br>
written in such a way as not to create giant loopholes to circumvent
the<br>
intent of outcome documents, declarations and other written
commitments.</blockquote><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">It is also my understanding, why
we have experts (hopefully) provide input in various thematic and
specialty areas. I would not assume I know enough about
intellectual property and legal aspects of privacy laws, to insist on
changing language.</blockquote><br><br>
There are often unintended consequences and specificity can create those
also.<br><br>
Any listing, by its very nature, omits items not listed.<br><br>
I want to argue that there is a right to communication, that individuals
have a right to all information that affects them.<br><br>
All means all. If we specify health information, then I can read
the list and say oh, then people don't have a right to their credit
history. If I specify health and financial, I can argue that people
don't have a right to their arrest history, ... If, further, I
divide a category by, for health, saying physical and mental, I open up
more areas for exclusion, not inclusion. For instance, currently in
US law many people with disabilities are not allowed access to their own
unedited health records.<br><br>
> It was Sylvia's recommendation to then recommend the exclusion of
physical and mental health information.<br><br>
That isn't what I meant to say. I objected to the qualifier.
If there's an appropriate place to single out health information, I'm OK
with that. What I resist is carving out mental health, talking
about physical and mental health, instead of health.<br><br>
Although I don't add my credentials usually, like most on this list, I
too am an expert in the advocacy area. I would hope my ideas would
stand for themselves, but if you'd like some sense of who I am and what I
do, and a few links to presentations and papers,
<a href="http://www.peoplewho.org/sylvia/resume.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.peoplewho.org/sylvia/resume.htm</a><br><br>
And as long as I'm getting personal, come wish me a
<a href="http://sylviaisseventy.blogspot.com/">Happy Seventieth
Birthday</a> at the blog.<br><br>
Sylvia<br><br>
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